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CurvyCleanFreak -> RE: HPV (6/9/2008 2:15:43 AM)
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It's been stated and I'll restate. Cervical dysplasia and HPV, while often linked, are not the same or always connected. Here's my little HPV (or not) story. I had a pap come up with dysplasia and my doctor told me that it was from HPV. Too bad for me that no one around me knew enough (including the doc) to ask for a specific HPV test. She never did one and diagnosed me anyways based on the dysplasia. I was young and scared. While it may have been a wakeup call to be even safer than I had been (though I was a lot safer than most of my peers) it was irresponsible and cruel of that doctor and it put me through years of explaining that I had an STD to potential partners that probably still think they may have it and I can't contact them all.
I'll point out that I never had a wart or a positive HPV test but I still I faced the judgement, the rumors, the stress, etc... The irregular paps continued for years though the grade of changes never got worse. When I finally got a great gyno I had HPV tests come back neg. one after another. This month my dysplasia didn't show up. I attribute it to my improved immune system after diagnosing and addressing Chron's disease and hormone irregularities. While I'm glad that I hav ethe knowledge I do because of that experience it still makes me wish I could let that doctor know how irresponsible that was and let my previous partners know that I hadn't put them at the risks I had thought.
Now I'd like to point out some [maybe not so common] but very real sense:
You can get an STD from your first or 300th partner no matter how much you trust them or how many times you've been tested. There is risk in sex unless you are both total virgins (even no kissing or touching) one of you may be infected with any number of things especially the commonly silent viruses that are so prevalent like HPV and HSV (herpes).
Here's a newsflash to those that think they can trust a new partners word of assurance about STD status, or people that think that their children won't have sex without telling them. PEOPLE LIE!!!!! They always have, always will. Assuming that your parnter or your child is the exception is blind faith that gets people hurt often more than it helps.
Oh and this one is directly for you came4U:
A sexually active 10th grader is not automatically a slut. You have been misinformed again. I've known, in my life, many 10th graders that are more responsible (sexually and otherwise) than other 30-somethings I've known. It's not always, but those responsible kids do NOT need to be lumped in with the others under your split decision judgement.
Assuming that someone who isn't married or age of consent is a promiscuous idiot only makes YOU sound like someone who's children wouldn't dare to tell you of their activities because of your terrible judgements.
Stats are stats- they are designed to be random to the degree that they show an accurate cross-section of the population in question. You can't change numbers by just saying that you are more responsible, moral, mature, or smarter than everyone else whose activities you disagree with.
I would hope that you could extend your understanding and acceptance of an alt. lifestyle like your own to the lifestyles of others.
You hear statistics about teens having sex and assume that they are all sluts. So I guess it doesn't matter if birth control awareness and condom use is getting better- they are all sluts anyways.
I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, but that's what I hear because you haven't given exception to anything else but your cruel generalizations.
Your misspellings make you sound very educated, BTW.
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